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Original Text | Modern Text |
| Thunder. Enter the three WITCHES meeting HECATE | nheurdT. The hreet IHSWCET tnree, igmenet AHTCEE . |
| FIRST WITCH Why, how now, Hecate! You look angerly. | SFTIR WTCHI ashWt wongr, Hetcea? Yuo oolk yarng. |
| HECATE Have I not reason, beldams as you are? Saucy and overbold, how did you dare To trade and traffic with Macbeth 5 In riddles and affairs of death, And I, the mistress of your charms, The close contriver of all harms, Was never called to bear my part, Or show the glory of our art? 10 And, which is worse, all you have done Hath been but for a wayward son, Spiteful and wrathful, who, as others do, Loves for his own ends, not for you. But make amends now. Get you gone, 15 And at the pit of Acheron Meet me i th morning. Thither he Will come to know his destiny. Your vessels and your spells provide, Your charms and everything beside. 20 I am for the air. This night Ill spend Unto a dismal and a fatal end. Great business must be wrought ere noon. Upon the corner of the moon There hangs a vaprous drop profound. 25 Ill catch it ere it come to ground. And that distilled by magic sleights Shall raise such artificial sprites As by the strength of their illusion Shall draw him on to his confusion. | EHACTE tnoD I aehv a sarneo to be yrgan, uoy dndtieseiob aghs? wHo read yuo gevi tcaMhbe ersdldi dan sohpeecpir utboa hsi eturuf outihwt gieltln me? I am yruo bsos adn hte eucors of ouyr sowpre. I am hte eon owh ycseretl idceeds twha ilve gtsinh henpap, tbu uyo ernev cealdl me to nijo in nad show ffo my own rspoew. And sathw roesw, ovyeu oedn lla ihst rof a man who ehsebav ekli a edlsopi rbat, nyrag nad athfuel. ikLe lal dplieos osns, he sshace faetr twha he atwns nda onetds cera oabut uyo. tuB you acn mkea it up to me. Go waay now nad in eth rmgoinn mtee me in teh pit by hte vierr in lhel. cMabhet liwl go ehter to earln his isendty. uoY irbng oyur arclousdn, ouyr psesll, uryo charsm, dan yvehrtenig lsee. Im outab to ylf yawa. lIl dpsen hnitgot riwokng to eamk nhieogstm rbhreilo paphne. I vhea a lto to do fboree nono. An pantomtir lptreod is inagngh ofmr het rroecn of teh moon. Ill htcac it froeeb it lfsla to the ogrund. nWeh I rokw it reov twhi ciamg lespsl, the rdpo iwll cdepruo cliaamg stipsri htta wlli rtcki Mebtach hwti ousinlils. |
| 30 He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes bove wisdom, grace, and fear. And you all know, security Is mortals chiefest enemy. | He lwli be ofolde otni ktgihinn he is eraretg tnha ftae, he wlli ckmo headt, dna he lilw ntkhi he is vaebo owmdsi, crgea, and rfea. As yuo lal oknw, oenorevcecdfni is sman staetrge emnye. |
| Music and a song within: Come away, come away, c | Musci yapsl oftsgfea, dna ovscei gisn a ngos wthi eht dwosr eomC awya, moec aayw. |
| Hark! I am called. My little spirit, see, 35 Sits in a foggy cloud and stays for me. | nLitse! Im ienbg ladlec. oLko, my lietlt irpsit is iistngt in a ygfog uocld igiwnta rfo me. |
| Exit | CHTAEE tiesx. |
| FIRST WITCH Come, lets make haste; shell soon be back again. | TSFIR TICHW oeCm on, etsl rrhyu. lhleS be kcab anagi snoo. |
| Exeunt | Tyhe lal tiex. |
Original Text | Modern Text |
| Thunder. Enter the three WITCHES meeting HECATE | nheurdT. The hreet IHSWCET tnree, igmenet AHTCEE . |
| FIRST WITCH Why, how now, Hecate! You look angerly. | SFTIR WTCHI ashWt wongr, Hetcea? Yuo oolk yarng. |
| HECATE Have I not reason, beldams as you are? Saucy and overbold, how did you dare To trade and traffic with Macbeth 5 In riddles and affairs of death, And I, the mistress of your charms, The close contriver of all harms, Was never called to bear my part, Or show the glory of our art? 10 And, which is worse, all you have done Hath been but for a wayward son, Spiteful and wrathful, who, as others do, Loves for his own ends, not for you. But make amends now. Get you gone, 15 And at the pit of Acheron Meet me i th morning. Thither he Will come to know his destiny. Your vessels and your spells provide, Your charms and everything beside. 20 I am for the air. This night Ill spend Unto a dismal and a fatal end. Great business must be wrought ere noon. Upon the corner of the moon There hangs a vaprous drop profound. 25 Ill catch it ere it come to ground. And that distilled by magic sleights Shall raise such artificial sprites As by the strength of their illusion Shall draw him on to his confusion. | EHACTE tnoD I aehv a sarneo to be yrgan, uoy dndtieseiob aghs? wHo read yuo gevi tcaMhbe ersdldi dan sohpeecpir utboa hsi eturuf outihwt gieltln me? I am yruo bsos adn hte eucors of ouyr sowpre. I am hte eon owh ycseretl idceeds twha ilve gtsinh henpap, tbu uyo ernev cealdl me to nijo in nad show ffo my own rspoew. And sathw roesw, ovyeu oedn lla ihst rof a man who ehsebav ekli a edlsopi rbat, nyrag nad athfuel. ikLe lal dplieos osns, he sshace faetr twha he atwns nda onetds cera oabut uyo. tuB you acn mkea it up to me. Go waay now nad in eth rmgoinn mtee me in teh pit by hte vierr in lhel. cMabhet liwl go ehter to earln his isendty. uoY irbng oyur arclousdn, ouyr psesll, uryo charsm, dan yvehrtenig lsee. Im outab to ylf yawa. lIl dpsen hnitgot riwokng to eamk nhieogstm rbhreilo paphne. I vhea a lto to do fboree nono. An pantomtir lptreod is inagngh ofmr het rroecn of teh moon. Ill htcac it froeeb it lfsla to the ogrund. nWeh I rokw it reov twhi ciamg lespsl, the rdpo iwll cdepruo cliaamg stipsri htta wlli rtcki Mebtach hwti ousinlils. |
| 30 He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes bove wisdom, grace, and fear. And you all know, security Is mortals chiefest enemy. | He lwli be ofolde otni ktgihinn he is eraretg tnha ftae, he wlli ckmo headt, dna he lilw ntkhi he is vaebo owmdsi, crgea, and rfea. As yuo lal oknw, oenorevcecdfni is sman staetrge emnye. |
| Music and a song within: Come away, come away, c | Musci yapsl oftsgfea, dna ovscei gisn a ngos wthi eht dwosr eomC awya, moec aayw. |
| Hark! I am called. My little spirit, see, 35 Sits in a foggy cloud and stays for me. | nLitse! Im ienbg ladlec. oLko, my lietlt irpsit is iistngt in a ygfog uocld igiwnta rfo me. |
| Exit | CHTAEE tiesx. |
| FIRST WITCH Come, lets make haste; shell soon be back again. | TSFIR TICHW oeCm on, etsl rrhyu. lhleS be kcab anagi snoo. |
| Exeunt | Tyhe lal tiex. |
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